Detection in Analytical Chemistry. Importance, Theory, and Practice

Content: Detection : overview of historical, societal, and technical issues / Lloyd A. Currie --
Realistic detection limits and the political world / Mike McCormack --
Scientific measurements and data in public policy-making / Thomas H. Moss --
Estimation of detection limits for environmental analytical procedures : a tutorial / Cliff J. Kirchmer --
Interlaboratory aspects of detection limits used for regulatory and control purposes / L.B. Rogers --
Comparison of detection limits in atomic spectroscopic methods of analysis / Michael S. Epstein --
Noise and detection limits in signal-integrating analytical methods / H.C. Smit and H. Steigstra --
Establishing clinical detection limits of laboratory tests / Mark H. Zweig --
Perspectives on detection limits for nuclear measurements in selected national and international programs / Lloyd A. Currie and Robert M. Parr --
Effects of analytical calibration models on detection limit estimates / K.G. Owens, C.F. Bauer, and C.L. Grant --
Critical assessment of detection limits for ion chromatography / William F. Koch and Walter S. Liggett --
Risk assessment as a tool for verifiable detection and quantification of fusarium trichothecenes in human blood at low parts-per-billion concentrations / D.J. Reutter, S.F. Hallowell, and E.W. Sarver --
Evaluating the impact of hypothesis testing on radioactivity measurement programs at a nuclear power facility / R.A. Mellor and C.L. Harrington --
Radioactivity analyses and detection limit problems of environmental surveillance at a gas-cooled reactor / James E. Johnson and Janet A. Johnson --
Detection limits for amino acids in environmental samples / P.E. Hare and P.A. St. John --
Real-world limitations to detection / David A. Kurtz, John K. Taylor, Larry Sturdivan, Warren B. Crummett, Charles R. Midkiff, Jr., Robert L. Watters, Jr., Laura J. Wood, W. William Hanneman, and William Horwitz --
Reporting low-level data for computerized data bases / Martin W. Brossman, Gerard McKenna, Henry Kahn, Donald King, Robert Kleopfer, and John K. Taylor.